I am new to the scrap game and and getting serious with aluminum this thread is for ANYTHING ALUMINUM
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I am new to the scrap game and and getting serious with aluminum this thread is for ANYTHING ALUMINUM
Cans
Window Frames
Door Frames
Wheels
BBQ Grills
Folding Chairs
Car Parts
Aluminum is a very useful metal but I must sat that in the many years I had been scrapping metals the price of scrap aluminum has not come up appreciably in value. So don't expect any great monetary gains by hoarding this metal.Quote:
Originally Posted by KINGOFSCRAPPING
Now if you want to cash in on the abundance of this metal from secondary uses such as the automotive industry, engine blocks and aluminum wheel rims and transmissions. Consider starting up a home foundry that is capable of 5 to 8 pound melts then cast a product like fishing weight molds.
As an example Palmer started out making fishing weight molds in a basement foundry. C.Palmer Mfg. Co. Inc.
Carmen Palmieri founded our company in 1946, in his basement with no money and a strong desire to work. The first aluminum castings he made were tiny Italian cookie irons. He was then approached to making sinker molds, after some time making these for others; he decided to create a whole line of molds with his name being the brand. Unfortunately, at that time in history, trying to sell products under an ethnic name was difficult. The name was Americanized to C. Palmer Manufacturing, Inc.
As the business continued to grow the product line became much larger. In the late fifties, the business was too large for the basement to handle, so Carmen and his first son John, built the company's first plant. John was fresh out of the Navy and anxious to help his father. Being in electronics in the Navy, he had several new and innovative ideas for products, as well as plant automation. The company came out with the first electric Pizzelle Iron as well as the Palmer Sandwich Toaster.
Sales were booming and it did not take long to outgrow the existing plant, so again it was time to expand and land was bought, and in 1964 a new plant was built with more than enough room, or so they thought. John designed and implemented a fully automated sand casting system. Many companies revered the system. A national electronics manufacture sent a few of their engineers to observe the system. They were impressed and amazed that such a small company could have so much automation while not having the resources of a larger conglomerate. They asked to use some of the ideas that John had implemented, the request was honored.
Seeing an easier way, in 1976, the company bought their first aluminum die cast machine adding a vast improvement in quality of the product and the secondary operations were decreased. In the late 70's, it was decided to add our own Tool and Die department. This has been one of our greatest assets. We offer the service of building our customers' dies at minimal charge. This is like making an offer that cannot be refused, as the cost savings are in the thousands.
In 1979, Carmen decide to retire, fortunately for us he forgot to stop coming to work and up to the age of 96 he kept his 7:00-3:30 work regime.
Again the company was growing so expansion was necessary, and in 1980 an addition was built and another in 1982. In 1984, Philip, John's first son joined the company and began to bring the company into the computer age. The sand casting part of the company was phased out and converted over to die castings.
In the late 90's, still growing by leaps and bounds, and with two of our largest customers having expressed that their current level of purchases increasing for the next season by 40% to 100%; we again found it necessary for expansion and a second division, C. Palmer Diecasting, Inc. was opened in Oakland, Maryland.
Follow the money golfing is a popular sport, lets do some math.
Lets say these three golf tee's each weigh 6 grams, $12.79 for 18 grams of aluminum works out to $2,296,325.90 for one metric ton of aluminum.
You should be studying marketing and graphics design and leave the hard work of finding scrap to us old geezers.
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In addition to hobo finds list.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
Small engines ie: lawnmowers and garden tractors.
Small and large fishing boats, outboard engines, outboard legs.
Baily bridges which are temporary portable bridges used by the military.
Satellite dishes large and small.
Large truck and trailer rims large highway truck cabs and trailer vans, some truck frames. gravel box's, tow truck decks.
Transformer windings and some cheap house wiring .
Road sighns
Airplanes.
Thermite which is a composition of aluminum powder and iron oxide used to weld railway tracks together.
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My scrap metal buyer(s) pays extra for
Alloy rims.
If they are in a condition that they can be reused/repaired/recycled. They are sent to the middle east in shipping containers, graded, repaired, cleaned and sold.
(NZ$2/kg vs NZ$1.15 for cast Ali)
Alloy lawnmower chassis body's.
(NZ$2/Kg) they are sold direct to the casting company that makes the lawnmower body's.
The Alloy has a high amount of Copper in it (so I have been told by the buyer) and the firms buying the same grade of Alloy that it produces,, so its a known quantity and use less Alloy additives during casting.
This is two different scrap buyers. Each one has their own speciality. Ie the one that pays extra for rims, (A big name firm) Does not pay extra for lawnmower chassis. (The local firm does)
It pays to ask what grades they grade their metal into, as well as their prices. Everyone's different.